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Rome · RomeDante’s Inferno opens just before dawn on Good Friday in 1300, when the author is in mid-life, and wandering lost in a dark wood. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Dante Lost in the Forest (1861), gouache, dimensions not known, location not known. Image by Gastair, via Wikimedia Commons. When he reaches the foot of a hill, Dante sees its upper slopes already lit by the first rays of the sun. As he starts walking up his way is blocked first by a leopard,…Read Article
Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 1 To the gates of Hell
Paris, France · ParisOne hundred years ago today, on 28 July 1925, the French Naturalist artist Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925) died. I resume my brief account of his career and art at the start of the 1890s, when he had stated on canvas the links between the Naturalist art movement and contemporary scientific thought. In the later years of his career, he returned to painting rural themes, but continued creating original work. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925)…Read Article
